Securing the Future Program

Through our Securing the Future research program we intend to link with like-minded organizations working to identify and advocate for global solutions to threats to the future of civilization.

"The Singularity is not what you think" by George Dvorsky Sentient Developments  May 14, 2008

"Pondering Fermi" by Jamais Cascio Open the Future  May 6, 2008

"Feedback, Tipping Points, and Hard Choices" by Jamais Cascio Open the Future  Apr 29, 2008

"Nick Bostrom: “Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.”" by George Dvorsky Sentient Developments  Apr 28, 2008

"Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing" by Nick Bostrom Technology Review  Apr 27, 2008

Bostrom, N. and M. Cirkovic eds. 2007. Global Catastrophic Risks. Oxford University Press.

"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats," by J. Hughes, in Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology (2007)

Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats by J. Hughes in Global Catastrophic Risks eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic. Oxford University Press. 2008. pgs 72-89 Apr 14, 2008

Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards by Nick Bostrom

Dinosaurs, Dodos, Humans? (pdf) by Nick Bostrom

Catastrophe: Risk and Response by Richard Posner

The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century - On Earth and Beyond by Martin Rees

Reducing the risk of human extinction by Jason Matheny

Emerging Systemic Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action (pdf) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2003)

Global Risks 2006 (pdf) World Economic Forum (2006)

Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations Fred Ikle

Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction (pdf)., and Robin Hanson (2007)

Some Limits to Global Ecophagy, with Public Policy Recommendations. by Robert Freitas
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Ikle, F. C. 2006. Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations. Columbia University Press.

Joy, B. 2000. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us. Wired Magazine, April, Issue 8.04.

Leslie, J. 1996. The End of the World. Routledge.

Matheny, J. 2006. Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction..

Posner, R. 2004. Catastrophe: Risk and Response. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Preston, R. 2002. The Demon in the Freezer. Fawcett, 2003.

Rees, M. 2003. Our Final Hour. Basic Books, 2004.

Bill of Rights for US Scientists
Scientists and Engineers for America Feb 24, 2008

Anissimov on the Responsible Regulation of Emerging Technology
Feb 8, 2008

Rules for Soldier-Bots
Feb 2, 2008

A-life farming
xkcd.com Nov 28, 2007

Hughes on Saving Humanity in Spain
El Pais Nov 20, 2007

Twitter, Annihilation and a Dude Pill 2008-04-29
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Is War Inevitable? 2008-04-13
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Live Long and Worry 2008-04-10
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X-Risky Research, ET-lessness & cranky atheists 2008-04-02
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Geo-Engineering: Defensive and Offensive 2008-03-30
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Global Catastrophic Risks by eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic (2008)

Get Back in the Box : Innovation from the Inside Out by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance by Mihail Roco and William Sims Bainbridge (2003)

Two Stars for Peace: The Case for Using U.S. Statehood to Achieve Lasting Peace in the Middle East by Martine Rothblatt (2003)

Manna by Marshall Brain (2002)